Definitions for Stranger

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Stranger stran·ger

Spelling: [streyn-jer]

IPA: /ˈstreɪn dʒər/

Stranger is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 339 anagrams from letters in Stranger (aegnrrst).

Definitions for Stranger

noun

1. a person with whom one has had no personal acquaintance:
2. a newcomer in a place or locality:
3. an outsider:
4. a person who is unacquainted with or unaccustomed to something (usually followed by to):
5. a person who is not a member of the family, group, community, or the like, as a visitor or guest:
6. Law. one not privy or party to an act, proceeding, etc.
7. French L'Étranger. a novel (1942) by Albert Camus.

adverb

1. in a strange manner.

adjective

1. unusual, extraordinary, or curious; odd; queer:
2. estranged, alienated, etc., as a result of being out of one's natural environment:
3. situated, belonging, or coming from outside of one's own locality; foreign:
4. outside of one's previous experience; hitherto unknown; unfamiliar:
5. unaccustomed to or inexperienced in; unacquainted (usually followed by to):
6. distant or reserved; shy.

Origin of Stranger

1325-75; Middle English Middle French estrangier, equivalent to estrange strange + -ier -ier²

Examples for Stranger

"Nothing but a half loaf, and that's dry enough," muttered the stranger.

As Europe closes its shores to immigrants and refugees, the pope asks for welcome of the stranger fleeing war.

"stranger, thou hast not yet learned the fashions of Athens," said Anaxagoras, gravely.

He quickly turned the boat to the shore, and the stranger jumped on board.

The rate of partner violence dwarfs the number  of women who experience sexual assault from a stranger (7%).

When I first arrived at Duke, hooking up with a stranger seemed like a way to shed my inhibitions.

The boy came forward, and examined the stranger with curiosity.

And his pitiless beliefs would be no stranger to the political discourse of today.

“The social convention of not talking to a stranger was fairly rigid at the time,” Weber told me.

But for the stranger's presence it would have been attended to two hours earlier.